Tag: DER
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Digitizing deployment: Enhancing solar development
By Emily Obenauer | Sitetracker Thomas Edison’s pioneering generation facility — the granddaddy of all central station power — would today be considered a distributed energy resource. After all, it served just a single New York City neighborhood when it fired up back in 1882. Today, DERs and advanced energy systems proliferate, with distributed solar……
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New EV charger capacity will overtake distributed solar installs this year
The US Distributed Energy Resource (DER) market is expected to nearly double in capacity from 2022 to 2027, with capital expenditure reaching US $68 billion per year, according to Wood Mackenzie’s ‘2023 US Distributed Energy Resource Outlook’ report. This new analysis from Wood Mac shows that 262 GW of new DER and demand flexibility capacity……
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FERC Order 2222 opens up wholesale electricity markets for DER — why is this a big deal?
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2222 last week to open up the wholesale electricity markers to distributed energy resources, which could go down as a historic decision. The public is more and more choosing to opt for cost-competitive solar and/or energy storage solutions. This rule is anRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Grid saturation lessons from Australia and Hawaii
A number of countries, states, and municipalities have been setting 100% clean energy goals. As the price of renewables keeps dropping, more people and businesses are turning to clean local energy, often in the form of rooftop solar. But in some locations, like Australia and Hawaii, solar adoption has beenRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Smarter Grid Solutions explains how it can double the capacity available for interconnected solar
Clean energy software firm Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) says it has developed five methods that could double the capacity available for solar panels and other distributed energy resources (DERs) to connect to individual electricity substations. Everything starts with the company’s ANM Element software product. Utility companies can monitor the amountRead More — Solar Builder magazine